The dark areas, the 'mare' plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.
Willy Ley
MoonGoldDarkDustRocketEnglish
I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.
Mr. T
FoolsRocketGoingKnewScientist
Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and I famously built and launched rockets. I recounted this story in my memoir, 'Rocket Boys.'
Homer Hickam
StoryUpLittleRocketWest Virginia
I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
Ellen Stofan
FatherNASARocketStartedWorking
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
Viola Davis
ScienceArtDoingYouActingRocket
Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce.
Aileen Lee
WomenSocialRocketWebWomen Are
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz
HarmonyBackFloridaNeckRocket
I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.
Aneel Bhusri
MoonProcessStrategyLongRocket
I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.
Michio Kaku
WorkGirlWeekOldOutRocket
When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in '98, I blew my back out.
Diamond Dallas Page
MeBackCareerTopSavageRocket
Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
Preet Bharara
CommunicationScienceNiceRocket
What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
Kyle Chandler
LoveScienceRocketSure
The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.
Henry Spencer
SpaceEscapeWillUpTowerRocket
I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
Elon Musk
PeopleMeCrazyTryTalkRocket
I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.
Saoirse Ronan
LoveBadBrilliantSingleUpRocket
To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
Adam Rayner
TimeYouYoungVampireBarRocket
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman
RocketNoneAbroadScrutinyThan
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.
Jimmy Walker
StarsCityYouLivingSeeRocket
'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.
Jeff Giles
UnderdogRocketBottle
What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.
Jon Hamm
ScienceI AmWorldUnderstandRocket
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
Christopher Buckley
TimeEarlyHouseWhiteTakeRocket
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.
Sharan Burrow
ScienceJobSecurityLivingRocket
The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.
James Howard Kunstler
LieLongStopReactionRocketClaim
Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.
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